Woke News - Censorship and Sensitivities - Standing For Women - Brighton - 18 May 2019

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Saw this on facebook where Megan Murphy described it as a fun event!

Julie Burchill invites you to join her panel of esteemed guests discussing the censorious climate of reporting in an idelogiocal driven media with an increasingly demanding and sensitive audience. This event includes an exclusive viewing of a short film.

Panel:

Brendan O'Neill is a British columnist. He is the editor of Spiked Online and has been a columnist for The Australian and The Big Issue.

Olly Lambert is freelance documentary film maker and has won over a dozen awards for work in areas of conflict, including an Emmy, two BAFTAs, an RTS, a Grierson and the Foreign Press Association award for Journalist of the year.

Jo Bartosch is a journalist campaigning for the rights of women and girls, she has been published in Unherd, Conatus News, Uncommon Ground Media, Feminist Current, New Statesman, Spiked, Morning Star and The Independent. She is a founding member of Critical Sisters.

Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist, and is the founder and editor of Feminist Current. She completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012

Chair: Posie Parker is a women's rights campaigner and runs Standing For Women.

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Apologies Meghan not Megan

Will Brighton be able to cope with that?

I'm really looking forward to this!

Apologies for being thick but which venue in Brighton is this being held at? It doesn't say on my ticket!

Prob for security Nellue and they'll let you know later.

Nellie

We have a dictionary and we're not afraid to use it

They'll announce it in the morning on Saturday, I imagine.

Prob for security Nellie and they'll let you know later.

Yes, I've just had an email saying they'll reveal the venue on Saturday morning.

I've been going to events like this for a few years now & half the time we end up having to go to a last-minute alternative venue because the second the anti-women activists find out where we're meeting, they start trying to bully the venue into cancelling.

Thanks all, just had my email too. It's my first event, here's hoping there won't be trouble

It's my first event, here's hoping there won't be trouble

I think most of them have learned by now that hitting / threatening women isn't a good look. And the atmosphere at these events is normally amazing!

I'm at this, it's excellent.

I’m on the way home. It was fantastic. With a brilliant Magdalen Berns video to finish it off!

Harry the Owl has produced some great tweets summarising the various talks.

Had a great chat with Harry the Owl and his lovely wife.

Just home.
very good event but too knackered to type! Loved seeing Magdaline on the big screen and Always please when I see women joining the dots when Sheila Jeffries speaks

I was there - great, as was the pub afterwards. Met a few women at their first event, some peaked very recently, suffering the consequences in terms of being 'out' to woke friends and family. Hopefully now feeling they have found a supportive community who get it. Chatted to Harry Owl a bit. Met one of the gender critical dads from twitter, dealing with his own guilt, he said, at not doing enough to prepare his teenage daughter for dealing with the male gaze. He said she'd started binding as her breasts developed and she hated the way men looked at her. Heartbreaking.

Ollie, the documentary maker, had clearly peaked during the process of making "trans kids" and had some interesting insights. He pointed out that everyone who believes they are in the right wants to talk to a documentary maker to tell their side of the story. The TRAs would not talk to him - in 20yrs of documentary making he'd never seen this. He contrasted this with his most recent documentary on Israel / Palestine - everyone he spoke to there asked him who on the other side he was talking to - with comments like "that should be interesting!" But no one refused to talk to him because he was talking to the "other side".

Well done Posie and Venice.

No threats, violence, smoke bombs, masked raiders? That's a relief.

very interesting about the documentary maker

Nope - no protests. Mind you, Saturday before lunch. They were probably still in bed 😉

I wish i could have been there :(

Video of full event here:

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